We had a very fun and festive holiday season this year! Thanksgiving wasn't much fun as I spent it in the hospital with Ben for RSV, but everything got a lot better after that weekend. Will decorated his first gingerbread house - of course being Will it had to be a gingerbread TRAIN. Here he is with the finished product and Nana.
"> There was a huge buildup to Christmas this year because Will finally kind of understands who Santa is and that he's about to get a bunch of presents. We spent a nice Christmas Eve at Nana and Papa's house but got home early to hop into bed before Santa showed up. Of course we had to leave out some cookies and milk, and the first thing Will did when he got up Christmas morning was look to make sure Santa had eaten his snack. Here he is digging through his stocking!
Here's one of his favorites, his new Brutus GeoTrax train from Uncle Ron and Aunt Angie.
I think Brian had as much fun as Will did this year playing with the Hotwheels tracks and building train sets. Here they are setting up some of the new wooden tracks he got from Uncle Mike.
Our Christmas day was pretty quiet - Nana came for a little visit and brought over Great Grandma and Great Grandaddy. Papa ended up getting really sick and didn't see much of the kids again so he wouldn't infect them with anything. Of course Dorie thinks everyone's coming over just to visit her. :)
Ben's birthday is two days after Christmas, so nobody really has any energy left at that point. If he develops enough to know what's going on next year I'm going to see what I can do to actually have a birthday party for him at some point - I feel bad that his birthday gets pretty much ignored right now. Luckily Ben's too little to know the difference! Nana and Papa came over for a little visit, Uncle Ron and Aunt Angie sent him a b-day present and we saved one of his Christmas presents for him, and we sang Happy Birthday. He really liked the singing part!
Here's his cute little Pooh birthday cake. Of course Ben wouldn't eat any of it - he wouldn't even let me put any icing in his mouth. But Will got many fingers full of icing before it was all over. You can see him sneaking one in the above picture. :)
Here are some random pictures of the kids enjoying their presents. Happy Holidays everyone!
